A Flag Large Enough
In partnership with KaskoSan
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A Flag Large Enough is a participatory project co-created and delivered with KaskoSan, a community organisation, working with Roma people with heritage in Central and Eastern Europe since 2009.
KaskoSan, a registered charity founded and run by East European Roma, supports more than a thousand Romani families, face-to-face in the north, and reaches 10 million Romani speakers online.
For this project, members of Romani communities, originally from Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, living in Bradford, Bolton and Oldham come together for the first time to share music, dance, theatre and food, and celebrate their culture. Four diverse groups meet for the first time and take part in workshops to celebrate International Roma Day and to devise a new performance.
On 16 May 1944, there was an uprising against the Nazi SS by Romani prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which saved the lives of more than 6,000 inmates.
Eighty years later, on 16 May 2024, these participant groups performed A Flag Large Enough at Theatre in the Mill in Bradford, co-created with the descendants of Holocaust survivors. Sharing music, dance and personal stories from the Roma communities to mark Roma Resistance Day.
A Flag Large Enough is about this history and how Roma people organise and resist today. It explores contemporary Romani culture, community and solidarity; how an oppressed people carve out their own space. It questions what it means to be “a people”, how it empowers and how it silences, and how we make a flag large enough to enfold everyone.
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This project was made possible with the support of The Bertha Foundation, Theatre in the Mill and Bolton Socialist Club.
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